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Show 1 MORMON ELDER URGES POLYGAMY. f "Dear Brother Erdman: I know you are sin-core sin-core and that in time the truth will he unfolded to your perfect understanding. The more you know of the work the bettor you will like it. Hut don't got discouraged if you can't grasp it all at onco, for it is a growth, and, like all other things, takes time. "Say, Sister Erdman, are you converted to polygamy po-lygamy yet? If not, just look the matter fairly and squarely in the face, and lay off that spirit of jealousy jeal-ousy which retards all spiritual growth, and you will know that the principle is God-given. Just think of the natural endowments of man and woman. The procroative activity of one is limited of the other unlimited. Now. I will ask you to look the matter over from all sides and tell me why (Jod so ordained is, if lie experts his children to he monogamists? "I shall await your answer on these questions. The principle of polygamy is either risiht or wrong. If it is wrong, then the Latter-Day Saints are a pernicious per-nicious people and without power to save souls, hut if right and (iod-given. then we, of all people, are (iod's chosen. The nations of the earth will yet demand de-mand that the principle ho restored and judiciously practiced. It is the only moans whereby the evils of the day may he adjudicated." From a letter by Abram F. Acord of Provo, a Mormon elder, April 14, 1905. |